Irvine, CA – Orange County’s preeminent Democratic trailblazer, Latina leader and former Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez announced today she is endorsing former Irvine Mayor Beth Krom for Chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC). Krom, who served sixteen years on the Irvine City Council, including four years as Irvine’s directly elected Mayor, has endorsed…

SACRAMENTO – Today, Senator Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) introduced Senate Bill 57, which would allow individuals to opt-in for voter registration instead of automatically being registered to vote or having to opt-out of the program. By returning the process to an opt-in, the transfer of inaccurate information leading to the registration of ineligible individuals is…

Bitter former State Senator Janet Nguyen can’t accept that she lost in the November General Election to her Democratic opponent, Tom Umberg. Even though he beat her handily by 135,062 to 131,973 votes, according to the California Secretary of State. Nguyen has in fact demanded a recount. That expensive process will begin this Monday, Dec.…

FORMER IRVINE MAYOR BETH KROM ENDORSES LORETTA SANCHEZ FOR ORANGE COUNTY SUPERVISOR; ANNOUNCES RUN FOR CHAIR OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF ORANGE COUNTY

Irvine, CA – Former Irvine Mayor Beth Krom announced today that she is withdrawing from the race for Orange County’s 3rd Supervisorial District and endorsing former Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. Sanchez is running to succeed District Attorney-elect Todd Spitzer in a special election that is likely to occur in the Spring of 2019. Krom also announced she is running for Chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC). Current Chair Fran Sdao will be stepping down at the end of her regular term in January.

In announcing her support for Sanchez and run for Chair of DPOC, Krom released the following statement: Continue reading→

The Republican Party of Orange County is officially in total disarray as they managed to lose every single House seat in the O.C. to the Democratic Party.

As you might imagine local Republicans are trying to figure out what happened. The Trumpers among them are in complete denial. They cannot possibly imagine that President Trump had anything to do with the blue sweep in Orange County. Continue reading→

Santa Ana, Calif. (November 16, 2018) – This week the County of Orange received an upgrade in its Issuer Default Rating (IDR) from Fitch Ratings to AAA and a reaffirmation of its Issuer Credit Rating (ICR) from S&P Global Ratings of AA+. In addition, on November 8, the United States Bankruptcy Court granted the County’s Motion for Order to close the County’s 1994 bankruptcy case.

“The County of Orange should be extremely proud of its fiscal standing and how we’ve fully recovered from the 1994 bankruptcy,” said Chairman Andrew Do, First District. “This is a result of the prudent stewardship by this Board of Supervisors, our past Boards and by the dedicated professional staff of the County.” Continue reading→

The LAO is optimistic about nearly $15 billion in additional resources to allocate after putting another $15 billion into the Rainy Day fund. The report concedes its November 2000 projection of a $10.3 billion estimated surplus for 2001-02 was crushed by the dot-com bust and ensuing recession. We know how that ended. Continue reading→

Former OC Weekly Editor Gustavo Arellano opined in a recent L.A. Times op-ed, that the OC GOP is dead. Well it may be too soon to declare the Republican Party of Orange County dead but it is most certainly on life support.

Two House seats were lost as a result of the Nov. 6 General Election – as longtime U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher got the boot and so did Diane Harkey, who was trying to hang on to the seat vacated by Darrell Issa. Continue reading→